During my high school years back in the 70's Made-for-TV movies were actually quite good. I stumbled across one of the most interesting films of 1974 recently on YouTube. It's called, "It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy", starring Paul Sorvino and JoAnna Cameron.
Let me ask a question, can a man claim sexual assault against a woman? Believe it or not, that's the premise of this movie. Paul Sorvino plays a real estate agent who is raped, at gunpoint, by JoAnna Cameron's character as she offers him a ride home in her Cadillac convertible.
This is a Comedy! This film is a light-hearted look at what happens when the tables get turned and a woman is the aggressor against a man.
But let me tell ya, my friends at school felt the same way I did, "what a lucky bastard!". This old movie turned out to be an amazing turn-on back in 1974. My high school buzzed with chatter about this movie for weeks afterward. JoAnna Cameron was unbelievably sexy driving around in a convertible wearing nothing but a mink coat!
Poor Paul, his character got nothing but laughs and congratulations when he tried to file a report with the police. When the local papers got wind of the story this guy got the thumbs-up from just about everyone in town - except his wife.
Here is the YouTube clip, image quality is not the best:
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What comes to mind when I say 70's fads? Crazy clothes and crazy hairstyles? Mood rings, lava lamps and pet rocks?
The biggest 70's fad had to be UFOs.
UFO-mania was everywhere and there were plenty of TV specials and made-for-TV movies about flying saucers and aliens. The popularity of UFO stories went into overdrive with the release of "The UFO Incident" in 1975, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
But what really started the UFO craze in a way that gained traction was the 1974 airing of "The Disappearance of Flight 412".
Take a look at the first 12 minutes, it's an interesting period-piece of old style radar. No one really knows what happened.
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